Outerbridge Reach Summary

In each of his novels, Stone allows the reader access into a fictional world that is at once vivid and disconcerting.

He attempts in his fiction to create a situation that in his own words "liberates some people from the prison of the self as it invites others to play out their personal drama on a larger stage. One sees people caught up in things that transcend the personal...

Outerbridge Reach Short Guide

Robert Stone Biographies (2)

Robert Anthony Stone (born 1937) was an American novelist whose preoccupations were politics, the media, and the random, senseless violence and cruelty that pervade contemporary life both in the Unite...
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The beginning of A. Alvarez's review of Robert Stone's fourth novel, Children of Light (1986), stands as the best concise summary of Stone's achievement that has yet been published: In just four novel...
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